Monthly Archives: January 2020

6.5 million Ghanaians registered under ‘Ghana Card’ roll-out – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that as at Wednesday January 8, 2020, some 6.5 million Ghanaians had been registered under the National Identification Authority’s (NIA) ‘Ghana Card’ roll-out. According to him, 3.7 million cards have so far been issued since the registration exercise commenced in April 2019. “As at Wednesday 8th January 2020, some 6.5 million Ghanaians have been registered since ...

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IMF pushes for increment of taxes

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has strongly advised government to consider increasing some existing taxes and re-introduce others government branded as ‘nuisance’ and scrapped in 2017, as part of the short-term measures to address the persistent revenue shortfall. In its 2020 Article IV Consultation report, one of the taxes it called on government to re-introduce is the 17.5 percent VAT ...

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Movement supports new voters’ register for 2020 election

The Concerned Voters Movement, a non-governmental organization has supported the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register as enshrined in Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution. A Statement signed by Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, Founder and President of the Movement and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the arguments by the National Democratic Congress ...

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EC to stick to ‘no-verification-no-vote’ policy for 2020 elections

The Electoral Commission (EC) will use the no-verification-no-vote policy for the 2020 elections. As part of efforts to upgrade its Biometric Voter Management System (BVMS), the EC plans to do away with the manual verification of voters, according to the Commission’s Director of Elections, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, who spoke on Eyewitness News. “We want to eliminate the possibility of depending ...

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Kilo’s kwijtraken door anders te eten: dit zijn de vier opties

Deze maand wil bijna iedereen wat afvallen, maar hoe? Vetarm eten? Minder koolhydraten? Is vasten de weg of moet je je leefstijl aanpassen? Voedingsdeskundige Jaap Seidell en arts Tamara de Weijer geven commentaar op deze vier mogelijkheden. Een koolhydraatarm dieet Eens in de zoveel tijd keert de hype over ‘low carb’ terug, onder nieuwe namen als Atkins (1972), Montignac (1996), ...

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NDC, Mahama run to churches, pastors to stop EC’s new voter roll – Reports

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, have turned to the head pastors of The Church of Pentecost to intervene in the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter register a few months into the elections. The party’s National Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, while reiterating the NDC’s opposition ...

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Watch: The road trip in Kumasi that requires a mask

Video Archive Listen to the Article A young man with a pollution mask stands by the Atonsu-Lake road waiting for his customers. It doesn’t take long for them to arrive one after the other, offering 50p for one mask as the passengers brace for one hell of a journey. “We have reduced the price so everyone can buy,” he said. ...

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Greater Accra is the most expensive region in Ghana, Ashanti among the cheapest

An analysis of the Ghana Statistical Service’s data on inflation for 2019 shows that Greater Accra was the most expensive region for consumers over the past 12 months. The country’s statistical agency which collects data on the changes in prices of food and non-food items on Wednesday, released its December 2019 data which showed that inflation in Greater Accra stood ...

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